UAH FACULTY SENATE
PRESENT:
ADSC: Schnell, Floyd
LA: Stewart, Bell, Enger, Dillard, Meister, Waring, Whatley, Wilkerson, Williams, Eaton, Berbrier
ENG: Smith, Fork, Gaede, Farrington, Landrum
LIB: Warren
NUR: Redmon, Reisenwitz, Williamson
SCI: Boyd, George, Li, Etzkorn, Ravindran, Friedman, Miller, Pakhomov
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ADSC: Wren
ENGR: Toutanji, Hawk
NUR: Stanfield
SCI: Baird, Geary
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
LBAR: Early
NUR: Weed
SCI: Christopher, Johnson, Hillman
0. President James Miller called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #431 were approved. Motion by Jack Schnell, seconded by Melinda Redmon.
2. The Senate Executive Committee Report was accepted. Motion by Jack Schnell, seconded by Melinda Redmon.
3. President Franz’s Report:
Dr. Franz
gave a brief overview of the financial issues of the State. We are now $1.4M below in
appropriation. We are $1M below where
we were last year Dr. Franz discussed
the cuts and measures for taking care of the cuts. We are operating with less from the State than we were last
year.
Enrollment
looks good. The final numbers are not
published but we are up a few percent.
Grants and contracts are up over last year.
Many
things are going on. The Library will
open soon. The new residence hall should open fall 2002—we plan to recruit on
that basis.
We are
restructuring Admissions—Scott Verzyl is in charge of all areas of
Admissions. He lost some
recruiters. He hired three very qualified
recruiters. The numbers are not up as
much as we wanted but we look for good things in the future.
Dr. Franz
was asked about the parking situation at Technology Hall. Dr. Franz will work on this and see what can
be done.
4. Provost Radonovich’s Report:
Dr.
Radonovich had two items to report.
The Faculty
Activity Report Form proposed by the Faculty Senate and presented to the
Provost has been reviewed by the Deans.
Dr. Radonovich discussed the proposed form with the Deans and discussed
the changes requested by the Deans.
There were two major items of concern.
The Deans want the tables in the form.
If we have the tables then a template will be done by Peggy and provided
to all faculty so that it will be easy for faculty to put information in and no
extra work will be created. The other
issue was whether it should be five years.
All the Deans want five years.
The Deans do not want to allow a choice or any deviation. There was a
question of whether anything was added.
The Consulting section was added.
Dr. Franz stated he and Dr. Radonovich will look at both versions and
come to a compromise. He stated they
will come back to the Executive Committee if the differences are significant.
Dr.
Radonovich stated he will do reviews for two Deans and two Directors this
year. He reported the questionnaire
will be shortened, the peer review will be stronger and the input from the
other Deans on campus will be done by the Provost. There was a question of how the decision was made for which deans
and which directors would be done this year.
Dr. Radonovich explained time since last review is a factor, and other
important factors were considered. He stated there are three male and two
female deans and he did not think it wise to have both female deans in the
reviews at the same time. He answered there will be one female and one male
dean in this review.
There was
some discussion regarding a vote of confidence of the faculty in the Dean
Reviews. One conclusion was that the
best scenario for this is evaluation for feedback and not just for the sake of
voting.
5. A. Senate Committee Reports:
1. Executive: The report was distributed with the minutes.
2. Faculty and Student
Development: Dr. Redmon reported the Committee will meet next
week. She will email information to the
Committee.
3. Finance and Resources: Dr. Fork reported the Committee will discuss
parking issues and ICR return and report back.
4. Governance and Operations: Dr. Williams reported he had looked at two
Committees the Campus Planning Committee and the Campus Priorities and
Resources Advisory Committee to find out if there are Senate representatives on
those Committees. The Campus Planning
Committee does not have Faculty Senators but has Faculty representatives. The Campus Priorities and Advisory Committee
has three Faculty Senators on it.
5. Personnel: Dr. Boyd asked that the Committee meet right after the Senate Meeting.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr. Landrum asked that the Committee meet
next week and he will let the members know where.
7. Undergraduate Scholastic
Affairs: Dr. Eaton reported the Committee
met and reviewed readmissions and academic bankruptcies.
B. University Committees: No Report
C. Officer Reports:
Parliamentarian: No Report.
Ombudsperson: No Report.
President-Elect: No Report.
President: No Report.
6. There
was a question regarding adjunct faculty and how they react to students. There was a question of faculty supervising
students who work for them. There were
discussions regarding the dissemination of information to adjunct faculty. There was some discussion regarding parents
teaching their child and is this a conflict of interest.
The Personnel Committee may want to look at the policies and the dissemination of the information.
7. There was a question regarding handicapped parking near the entrance of each building and meeting ADA compliance. The Finance and Resources Committee may want to look into this issue.
8. Dr. Miller asked the Faculty Senate to adjourn to Committees to discuss the issues for their Committees for next year. Dr. Miller asked the Chairs of the Committees to report back to him via email issues for the Committee for the year. He will compile these into formal charges for the Committees.
9. President Miller adjourned the meeting at 1:50 p.m.